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Factors Affecting The Corrosion

The corrosion rate of a material is affected by multiple factors related to the material itself, the environment, stresses on the material, the material's geometry, temperature, and time. Specifically, the key factors are the material's chemical composition, crystal structure, and surface condition; the environment's chemistry, phase, conductivity; applied and residual stresses; stress concentrators from discontinuities or restricted geometry; the temperature of the material and changes over time; and changes to the material's grain boundaries, structure, deposits, and defects over long periods.

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Factors Affecting The Corrosion

The corrosion rate of a material is affected by multiple factors related to the material itself, the environment, stresses on the material, the material's geometry, temperature, and time. Specifically, the key factors are the material's chemical composition, crystal structure, and surface condition; the environment's chemistry, phase, conductivity; applied and residual stresses; stress concentrators from discontinuities or restricted geometry; the temperature of the material and changes over time; and changes to the material's grain boundaries, structure, deposits, and defects over long periods.

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Factors Affecting the

corrosion rate

Zahid Hussain
Service Engineer @EPCL
Buckman Laboratries
Materials

 Chemical composition of alloy


 Crystal structure
 Grain boundary (GB) composition
 Surface condition
Environment
Chemical definition
Circumstance
 Type, chemistry, concentration, phase, conductivity
 Velocity, thin layer in equilibrium with relative
 humidity, wetting and drying, heat transfer boiling,
 wear and fretting, deposits
Stress
definition
Sources of stress
 Mean stress, maximum stress, minimum stress,
 constant load/constant strain, strain rate, plane
 stress/plane strain, modes I, II, III, biaxial, cyclic
 frequency, wave shape
 Intentional, residual, produced by reacted
 products, thermal cycling
Geometry
 Discontinuities as stress intensifiers
 Creation of galvanic potentials
 Chemical crevices
 Gravitational settling of solids
 Restricted geometry with heat transfer leading to
 concentration effects
 Orientation vs. environment
Temperature

 At metal surface exposed to environment


 Change with time
Time

 Change in GB chemistry
 Change in structure
 Change in surface deposits, chemistry,
 or heat-transfer resistance
 Development of surface defects, pitting, or erosion
 Development of occluded geometry
 Relaxation of stress
Factors Affecting the galvanic Corrosion

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